Coffee may not technically be one of the key food groups. But you wouldn't know that by looking at shares of Starbucks. Can millions of caffeine-addicted java junkies ... like yours truly ... be wrong?
That morning cup (or cups) of coffee may do more than just kick-start your day.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a Harvard study about coffee cutting the risk of endometrial cancer.
A few cups of coffee a day may help keep the blues at bay. According to a large new study, women who drink caffeinated coffee are less likely to become depressed -- and the more they drink, the more their risk of depression goes down.
Like a caffeine junkie on a morning buzz, the price of coffee futures began spiraling higher in late 2010 -- and coffee brands passed those higher costs on to consumers.
Uganda is Africa's second-largest coffee producer, but some of its farmers say they are getting a raw deal when it comes to profiting from their beans.
Coffee is part of our daily routines, but in Uganda, where so much coffee is grown, people don't drink much of it.
Consumers got a jolt this week with news that the price of coffee was hovering near $3 a pound, the highest price in more than three decades, forcing many coffee houses to consider raising prices or cutting services.
Inside Africa heads to the Ethiopian Highlands where coffee is king.
For many in Ethiopia, it is part of their daily routine -- a steaming hot cup of coffee first thing in the morning. But in an area considered to be the birthplace of the coffee bean, the drink is also an important part of the economy and culture.
Starbucks said Thursday it has signed a deal for the sale of single-cup versions of its coffee and tea products to be sold for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters' K-Cup system.
Starbucks said Tuesday that it will begin offering ground coffees for use in hotel room brewers as part of a plan to expand its presence in the "single-serve" market.
Starbucks confirmed Monday that it is planning to expand its presence in the market for premium single-serve coffee drinks, saying an official announcement could come in the near future.
McDonald's has long been the darling of Wall Street, posting increases in same-store sales for 30 consecutive quarters since early 2003. Even during the depths of the recession in 2008, same-store sales rose by 6.1%.
Indians may have come a step closer to sipping venti Frappuccinos after Starbucks signed a deal Thursday with a coffee conglomerate in India, a previously untapped market.
Times are tough, which is why most Americans are taking their coffee with two tablespoons of cheap. Inexpensive coffee is being poured by the bucketload at fast food restaurants like McDonalds, with its successful McCafe line, and Burger King, which is planning a nationwide Seattle's Best roll-out this summer.
The pair get their hearts racing as they press on with a national caffeine tour
The world's most expensive coffee is thriving in Indonesia. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
Imagine the Rolls Royce of coffee makers, one that can steam your milk, form the perfect foam-to-liquid ratio and deliver you a pH-balanced macchiato with the push of a button. A company called Nespresso, part of the Nestlé Business Group, makes them, and they've sold well in Europe for years.
You may soon find yourself paying more for your morning coffee - if you aren't already.
Elaine Murszewski is a self-proclaimed coffee addict.
In this adaptation from his new book, Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't (Broadway Books), author Kevin Maney explains the tension between two key qualities and how a great brand got caught in a no-man's-land between them.
In Money & Main Street, Stephanie Elam introduces us to a coffee lover on a quest to open her own shop.
Baristas from around the world pulled espressos, cappuccinos and specialty drinks in Atlanta to compete for the 2009 World Barista Championship title.
A Briton bested competitors from 51 other countries to win the recent World Barista Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.
The high-end specialty coffee industry isn't immune to the effects of a recession, but many companies are still doing well.
Susan Todd loves her daily coffee fix. "I can drink four or five cups, easily, comfortably," said Todd, 59, of Clinton Township, Michigan.
If you miss your daily caffeine fix you might suffer from withdrawal symptoms, as CNN's Judy Fortin reports.
It's a tough time for businesses, but one entrepreneur may have found the recipe for success.
Starbucks, home of the $4 latte, has introduced a new product to keep cash-strapped consumers sipping its brew.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been hyping a major announcement for weeks, hinting only that it would involve "innovation, competition, and value."
In an effort to alleviate problems facing the company, Starbucks announced that it will close 600 company-run U.S. stores over the next year. Most of the stores are near another Starbucks and aren't profitable.
Mothers are consuming more caffeine now than ever before. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
Double latte in the morning, soda with lunch, energy drink at midday. Sound familiar?
Consultations: Dr. De-Kun Li of Kaiser Permanente on what pregnant women should know about caffeine
A rare, expensive coffee with delicate origins goes on sale in London. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
A London department store has started selling coffee for $100 a shot.
Time.com's office coffee addict takes a first sip of the new Pike Place Roast. And still longs for good old Sumatra
At a time when she really needed a miracle, Annamarie Ausnes found one in an unusual place.
Loyal customers get free extras, freshly ground coffee brewing in-house, fancy new espresso machines and more on the Starbucks revitalizing docket
Warning to Starbucks junkies who usually get a fix on their way home from work: You're out of luck on Tuesday.
As a sole proprietor who works primarily online, every day I face a painful decision: work from home or go to a coffeehouse?
McDonald's has begun serving up lattes and chai at its new McCafÉ, while Starbucks is now selling sausage, egg and cheese breakfasts. Is this a turf war?
Starbuck factsupdated: Fri Dec 28 2007 03:51:00
Starbucks Coffee Company is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world, with more than 6,000 retail locations in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim.
The entries in this year's Big Tex Choice Awards could entice State Fair visitors back to the deep fryer for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
In the winter, the residents of this Pacific Northwest city hunker down for the gray rain that drills the city sidewalks for days on end. Locals drink loads of strong coffee, read books and take up knitting with zeal reserved in other parts of the nation for church going or clubbing.
As dairy prices rise, forcing Starbucks customers to shell out more for a grande decaf no-whip mocha, some small coffee stores are finding a way to outbrew the cappuccino king.
Watch out Starbucks. McDonald's is eager to steal customers of your pricey frothy lattes.
Despite the ubiquity of Starbucks, only about one out of six Americans drink specialty coffee on a daily basis, according to the National Coffee Association. To Patrick O'Dea, that smells like opportunity. For the past five years, the former Pringles salesman has run Peet's Coffee & Tea, a brand revered by coffee snobs but unknown in large swaths of the country.
I didn't plan to go to the Hilo Coffee Mill. In fact, on my tour of Big Island farms, I intend to skip coffee entirely. Not that there was any shortage of Kona coffee tourist experiences - they are some of the only agritourism operations with the marketing sophistication to, say, leave brochures in hotel lobbies - but I was looking for the more unusual crops.
When Dr. Evil plotted to take over the world in 1999's Austin Powers sequel, his headquarters was the Seattle Space Needle emblazoned with a Starbucks logo. As a symbol of global domination, the im...
Business 2.0: Roadshow Retreatsupdated: Thu Mar 15 2007 12:50:00
You've finally managed to hit up enough angels, family, and friends to amass your first round of seed funding. Now it's time to take your idea on the road to woo customers, pitch VCs, and rub elbow...
To produce a pound of organic sun-dried coffee, farmers in the southern Ethiopian village of Fero spread six pounds of ripe, red coffee cherries onto pallets near their fields. They sun the fruit f...
An independent coffee shop owner filed a lawsuit against Starbucks Corp. Monday, charging the coffee house giant with using anti-competitive tactics to rid itself of competition.
Money Magazine: Daily Grindupdated: Wed Mar 01 2006 00:01:00
Making a pot of coffee has never really been that much of a chore. Except that you have to clean out the coffee grounds (which always seem to get everywhere), and you rarely finish a whole pot, and...
Coffee makes many people feel alert, energized and even more cheerful, but can that steaming espresso, latte or cappuccino make you smarter?
Coke has brewed up a plan to take on Pepsi and Starbucks in the ready-to-drink coffee market, according to a report Tuesday.
It's 2008, and a tattooed barista is sitting in the back room at Starbucks tapping on her laptop. Live video feeds from high-res webcams spread around the store are carried on a secure Wi-Fi networ...
FSB: Here Comes the Sunupdated: Fri Jul 01 2005 00:01:00
From October through June, Seattle impersonates London—dark and drizzly, with a climate that's good for field-testing Gore-Tex but not much else. Visit in late summer, though, and the city shakes o...
With cameras watching her, helicopters overhead, perhaps Martha summed up her situation best as she set out to make lemonade out of lemons.
I am, as people who meet me quickly conclude, the simplest of people. Plop me in front of Eight Simple Rules, and I am a happy boy. Stick me in the corner with a copy of Real Simple, FSB's sister m...
Who says coffee isn't everybody's cup of tea? Just ask Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz.
They are really nothing more than just two shops. A sandwich shop and a specialty coffee shop. Next door to each other in downtown Canton, in buildings that have been restored to resemble something of the city center's former glory.
Are Americans really drowning in a sea of double-shot mocha lattes? Professional skinflint David Bach seems to think so. At the heart of his best-selling The Automatic Millionaire is a seductive no...
Fortune: Face Offupdated: Mon Mar 22 2004 00:01:00
Dunkin' Donuts has mastered the art of drip coffee, but can it compete when it comes to espresso? The doughnut chain launched a line of lattes, espresso shots, and flavored "swirl" beverages recent...
I'm in Seattle, talking with the father of the richest man in the world, who is speaking eloquently about a remarkably successful younger man who lives right here in his hometown. Yes, the speaker ...
BEND, ORE. (CNN/Money) - Starbucks debuted in Paris in January, marking its first entrée into France.
GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE No. 42
Howard Schultz is blushing. Having just heard that Starbucks, the coffee empire he built, is making its debut on the FORTUNE 500 list this year, the normally unflappable Schultz grins, his eyes dar...
One hundred miles east of Venice, the sleepy port of Trieste is home to much of Italy's coffee trade--including gourmet roaster Illy, which sells beans to cafes and restaurants around the globe. Bu...
Nestled among the rugged hills of Vietnam's Central Highlands, 200 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City, Buon Ma Thuot is a remote and isolated village in a remote and isolated land. The only road in an...
As "eureka!" moments go, the precise instant of Jay Sorensen's Big Idea is closer to a Sad Sack comic than an Edison-style epiphany. One morning in the spring of 1991, Sorensen dropped his daughter...
If you've been to a Starbucks lately (and 15 million of you went last week), you may be surprised that just two short years ago Chairman Howard Schultz declared that the coffee merchant was going t...
At home, in an antique mahogany desk where Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz often works in the hours before dawn, a bundle of clippings is piling up. Although the charismatic Schultz gets his shar...
Apparently, a Starbucks on every corner is not enough. Americans want espresso, and they want it at home. One in 10 households has an espresso maker, according to a recent survey by the National Co...
As Americans, we have grown up thinking of coffee primarily as a hot, tan liquid dispensed from fairly automatic appliances, then "doctored" as needed to make it drinkable. We open the three-pound ...
You probably never realized how pampered college life was until you got out and tried to date on a real-life paycheck. Dinner and a movie? You can break $100 without breaking a sweat. And at $100 t...
A shakeout in the $950 million coffee-bar business is brewing as fast as you can say tall skinny decaf. The Specialty Coffee Association of America figures the number of coffee bars will more than ...
Your 50 cents cuppa Joe has now turned so chic, it's perked a lingo all its own. Coast to coast, java-hungry hordes are bellying up to coffee bars, ordering things like, "A short-shot latte, double...
PRICE CHECK, Aisle Four! Frozen squid tentacles and Nescafe Cappuccino." If selling in the developing world sounds like a job for a man and a donkey, it's time to have a look at what's happening at...
Fortune: COMPANIES TO WATCHupdated: Mon Aug 24 1992 00:01:00
STARBUCKS CORP. Even a first-time customer strolling into a Starbucks espresso bar is bound to guess he'll get no ordinary cup of joe. Polished hardwood gleams, the fixtures are postmodern trendy, ...
WHAT HAPPENS when two extremely large, highly capable, well-financed corporations fight it out for preeminence in a commodity business like coffee? Think of two large men competing to see who can k...
''I drink 20 cups of coffee a day,'' boasts Phil Johnson, 43. Maybe it's all that caffeine that has been stimulating his string of entrepreneurial ideas. The first of them came to him in 1980 when ...
Decaffeinated coffees may let you sleep at night, but they won't wake up your taste buds. That was the conclusion of the seven experts Money assembled to sample 10 varieties of decaf -- seven canne...
When drinkers of decaffeinated coffee ordered the beverage in a restaurant just a few years ago, they were served a cup of hot water, a packet of instant brew -- and often a disdainful look. No lon...
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